The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.

Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.

Writing is thinking in slow motion.

The doctrine of original sin claims that all men sinned in Adam; but whether they did or whether it is merely a fact that all men sin does not basically affect the problem of suffering.

Paul substituted faith in Christ for the Christlike life.

Those who believe in God because their experience of life and the facts of nature prove his existence must have led sheltered lives and closed their hearts to the voice of their brothers' blood.

When Hegel later became a man of influence' he insisted that the Jews should be granted equal rights because civic rights belong to man because he is a man and not on account of his ethnic origins or his religion.